Enterprise digital investments carry both huge development potential for change and substantial risk of failure. This curriculum provides a baseline of essential training for staff in organisations embarking on substantial digital change, a bit like an insurance policy for digital transformation success.
Today market competition together with dramatic change demand that every organisation should become digital. Enterprises making investments in digital transformation require specific education and change programs for their staff and management in order to succeed. True digital transformation requires enterprises to be Agile while creating a strong platform as a foundation for long-term sustainable growth. Change management has therefore become an important part of the mission of many more people in an organisation than ever before. The curriculum is designed to empower all types of “change agents” with practical methods for smooth investment into digital solutions.
The curriculum has been designed by AlphaZetta member Petr Podymov, an experienced Enterprise Architect who has worked at industry pioneers of digital and Agile transformation. Petr has a focus on planning, explaining and justifying structural investments in architectural change for transformation projects. He has gained specific experience how to build and communicate business cases for architectural initiatives especially to CxO audiences.
Curriculum Goal
Find and justify optimal value digital solutions for enterprise transformation.
Curriculum objectives
- Understand how large companies make decisions about investing in change
- Find important problems to solve or opportunities to speed-up
- Fairly assess short-term and long-term values, risks and costs
- Align the digital business case with non-IT stakeholders
- Practice vendor management and comparison of different solutions.
Standard Track | Executive Track |
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| - Structuring Enterprise Digital Investments - 2 days*
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* coming very soon.
Curriculum Outcomes
- Handle digital transformation challenges by having well-prepared people involved. They will act as change management improving investments and improve the quality of the selected portfolio
- Empower people to understand the role of change agent, to work collaboratively and adopt Agile culture. Meanwhile keep enough accuracy to ensure strategic alignment and investment performance
- Ensure that responsible staff fairly assess problems and opportunities, follow appropriate decision processes, and put valuable and clearly described initiatives on the table when speaking about organisation success.
Audience
The Enterprise Digital Investments Curriculum is aimed at:
Organisations preparing to make or deliver:
- significant investments in digital solutions
- efforts to improve change management
Managers and experts involved in digital transformation (regardless of their IT background):
- Project and product managers, team leads, solution and enterprise architects, mid-level line managers, external IT consultants.
